CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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239 km from Paraty to Paraty, about 4 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi, Praia do Sul Biological Reserve and back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 29 km this is Rio-Santos Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Paraty sits between the mountains and the sea, and Morro da Vila Velha, a hill beside the old town, is a good vantage for seeing why. The mountains of the Serra do Mar rise steeply behind, covered in Atlantic forest, and the bay in front is dotted with islands. Portuguese settlers took the site in the sixteenth century, and in the eighteenth it became the port for gold from Minas Gerais, carried down the Caminho do Ouro on mule trains and loaded onto ships. UNESCO listed Paraty and Ilha Grande together in 2019, recognising both the culture and the nature.
Read the complete Morro da Vila Velha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Morro da Vila Velha is where the day begins. Next is Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi.
There are few places where a rainforest drops directly into the sea, and the coast between Rio and Santos is one of them. Paraty sits at the edge of a bay, with the mountains of the Serra da Bocaina rising steeply behind and the green islands of the bay scattered in front. The town was founded in the seventeenth century and prospered as the port where gold from the mines of Minas Gerais was shipped to Rio and on to Portugal, brought down the mountain on the Gold Road, the Caminho do Ouro, which you can still walk in places. UNESCO listed Paraty and Ilha Grande in 2019, as a landscape of culture and biodiversity.
Read the complete Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi comes up 44 km in. Next is Praia do Sul Biological Reserve.
The southern shore of Ilha Grande, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state, is one of the few pieces of Brazil's Atlantic coast that is protected as a strict biological reserve, meaning ordinary visits are not allowed. The Praia do Sul reserve was created to guard a long, curved beach backed by a lagoon, a mangrove and a fringe of forest, and it is one of the places where sea turtles come ashore to lay eggs. The island as a whole has no cars, only footpaths, boats and a tradition of fishing villages, and most of its interior is covered in Atlantic forest, which survived because the island had a prison for much of the twentieth century and was kept off limits.
Read the complete Praia do Sul Biological Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
89 km in you reach Praia do Sul Biological Reserve. Next is back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi, late in the day. Next is Morro da Vila Velha.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Morro da Vila Velha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Morro da Vila Velha. That is the ride.
Morro da Vila Velha → Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi → Praia do Sul Biological Reserve is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Praia do Sul Biological Reserve → back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi → Morro da Vila Velha is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.